Build your club website

Stagewerk can build a public website for your organisation from what you already keep here. It has a home page, a calendar, results, news, documents, a join or renew page, a committee page, a sponsors page and any free-form pages you write. It lives at your platform address, and you can also serve it on your own domain.

You need "Website" in your sidebar. Owners and event secretaries can run the site. Only an owner can set the domain.

What each page shows

Home: your picture and tagline, the next events, your latest results, recent news and your sponsors.
Calendar: your events that are open to the public.
Results: events with published results.
News: the posts you write in the Website area. Drafts are not shown.
Documents: the public documents attached to your events.
Join or renew: your active membership types and a button to the membership form. Joining needs a Stagewerk account, so the button goes to the platform sign-in and then the form.
Committee: text you write.
Sponsors: your active sponsors, with the logos you set under Sponsors.

For a series, the calendar, results and documents come from the rounds of its seasons.

Switch it on

Choose "Website" in the sidebar.
Under "Look and menu", set "Website" to "On". While it is off, every page of the site answers "not found".
Pick a colour. Only combinations with readable text are offered.
Write a "Tagline" and the "Committee" text, then choose "Save website".
Under "Logo and hero picture", upload a logo and a wide photo (JPEG, PNG or WebP). Stagewerk converts them, so SVG files are not accepted.
Choose "View the website" at the top of the page.

In the "Menu" list, tick the pages that show in the menu and use "Up" and "Down" to set their order, then choose "Save website". Your free-form pages appear in the list once you have added them. The logo always links to the home page.

Add pages and news

Under "Add a page or news post" choose a type, a title and a web address ending (lower-case letters, numbers and hyphens). Write the text in plain text with light formatting:

a blank line starts a new paragraph;
## Heading makes a heading;
- item makes a list;
**bold** makes bold text;
[words](https://example.org) makes a link.

HTML, scripts, embedded frames and styles are removed, both when you save and when the page is shown. Set "Published" to "No" to keep a draft. A page needs a place in the menu to be linked from it; a news post appears on the News page.

Put it on your own domain

In "Own domain" enter the domain, such as www.example-club.org, and choose "Save domain".
At your DNS provider, add a CNAME pointing it at the address shown. For a bare domain your provider may call this an ALIAS or ANAME record.
Add the TXT record shown, which proves the domain is yours.
Wait for DNS to update, then choose "Check DNS".

Once it is verified, the whole site is served on your domain and a security certificate is arranged automatically, usually within a few minutes. The platform address keeps working. Only your own club's pages are served on your domain; the sign-in and the organiser console are not. See Use your own domain for more on DNS.

Send email from your domain

If your platform has switched this on, "Send email from your domain" appears under "Own domain". Only an owner can use it. Your bulletins, newsletters, mailouts and reminders then go out from noreply@your-domain with your organisation's name. Sign-in, security and receipt emails always come from the platform. Replies still go to your reply-to address.

Enter the domain, such as example-club.org (your website domain is filled in for you; its parent domain works too), and choose "Add domain". A domain that another organisation already uses is refused.
At your DNS provider, add the records shown: three CNAME records (required) and, if you can, the SPF and DMARC TXT records (recommended). If you already have an SPF record, add include:amazonses.com to it rather than a second one.
Wait for DNS to update, then choose "Check domain". The badge changes from pending to verified. Stagewerk also re-checks every day.

Until the domain is verified, your emails go from the platform address, so nothing is lost. If the records are later removed, the domain stops being used the same way. Choose "Remove domain" to go back to the platform address at any time.

If something goes wrong

Every page says not found. The website is off, or the domain is not verified yet.
A page is missing from the menu. Tick it in the "Menu" list and save.
The picture is refused. Use a JPEG, PNG or WebP photograph, not an SVG or a document.
You cannot see "Own domain". Only owners can set the domain.
You cannot see "Send email from your domain". Only owners see it, and your platform may not have switched it on.
"Check domain" says the records are not seen. DNS changes can take hours. Check the names and values match exactly; some providers add your domain to the end of a name for you.
The domain works but has no padlock yet. The certificate is issued a few minutes after the domain is verified.

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